Auto-Generation of PDF's
I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. I also use WebWorks 9.2 to create Microsoft HTML Help. I can't find anything current on WebWorks AutoMap. Is this product discontinued? Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to watched folders using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? Thanks, Ed Lightle Sr. Technical Writer Command Alkon Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Auto-Generation of PDF's
Ed Lightle wrote: Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to watched folders using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? Printing to a watched folder is so easy it doesn't require any special learning. In Distiller, go to Settings Watched Folders and choose the folder you'd like to work from (ideally, a nice short path like c:\temp). This will create two subfolders in that folder: in and out. Now when you print to a PS file, direct it to the in folder. Leave Distiller running and it will check the folder every 10 seconds (unless you change that setting to something else) and try to distill whatever it finds in there and move it to the out folder. If you put Distiller in your Startup folder, then you won't even have to make sure it's running. It will just start with the computer. Kenneth Benson Pegasus Type, Inc. www.pegtype.com ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Auto-Generation of PDF's
What part(s) of the process are you looking to automate? Some parts of the process depend on the OS, some on FrameMaker, and some on Acrobat Distiller, so a solution for comprehensive automation can get compicated. As to watched folders, there's nothing particularly complicated or mysterious as long as you have the Professional version of Adobe Acrobat. (The Standard edition and the bundled Distiller that comes with FrameMaker do not support watched folders.) All you need to do is create one or more folders at some convenient location and designate them in Distiller as watched folders. Distiller will automatically create In and Out subfolders within each folder you designate. If you want, you can attach a specific set of Distiller job options for each different watched folder. Then to use the watched folder, you just print your document to a PostScript file within the In subdirectory. Assuming that Distiller is running, it will periodically check each watched folder's In subdirectory and distill any PS file it finds, putting the PDF in the coresponding Out subdirectory. You can generte a bunch of PS files and then launch Distiller to do all the conversions in a batch, or you can leave Distiller running in the background to do the conversions as each book is printed to PS. Easy peasy. -Fred Ridder From: Ed Lightle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Auto-Generation of PDF's Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:57:32 -0500 I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. I also use WebWorks 9.2 to create Microsoft HTML Help. I can't find anything current on WebWorks AutoMap. Is this product discontinued? Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to watched folders using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? Thanks, Ed Lightle Sr. Technical Writer Command Alkon Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspxocid=T001MSN25A07001 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Auto-Generation of PDF's
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:57:32 -0500, Ed Lightle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. You can do that using Mif2Go's runfm utility, which is free. Download the demo version of Mif2Go from: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm and install it; runfm uses the plugin part, the DLLs which go into frame\fminit\plugins, but not the conversion DLLs. The runfm documentation is in the User's Guide, Chapter 32. In addition to PDFs, you can use it to automate print jobs, and, of course, Mif2Go conversions. Note that runfm is free and legal to use even if you never buy the licensed version of Mif2Go. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Auto-Generation of PDF's
I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. I also use WebWorks 9.2 to create Microsoft HTML Help. I can't find anything current on WebWorks AutoMap. Is this product discontinued? Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to "watched folders" using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? Thanks, Ed Lightle Sr. Technical Writer Command Alkon Inc. elightle at commandalkon.com
Auto-Generation of PDF's
Ed Lightle wrote: > Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to "watched folders" > using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? Printing to a watched folder is so easy it doesn't require any special learning. In Distiller, go to Settings > Watched Folders and choose the folder you'd like to work from (ideally, a nice short path like c:\temp). This will create two subfolders in that folder: "in" and "out". Now when you print to a PS file, direct it to the "in" folder. Leave Distiller running and it will check the folder every 10 seconds (unless you change that setting to something else) and try to distill whatever it finds in there and move it to the "out" folder. If you put Distiller in your Startup folder, then you won't even have to make sure it's running. It will just start with the computer. Kenneth Benson Pegasus Type, Inc. www.pegtype.com
Auto-Generation of PDF's
What part(s) of the process are you looking to automate? Some parts of the process depend on the OS, some on FrameMaker, and some on Acrobat Distiller, so a solution for comprehensive automation can get compicated. As to watched folders, there's nothing particularly complicated or mysterious as long as you have the Professional version of Adobe Acrobat. (The Standard edition and the bundled Distiller that comes with FrameMaker do not support watched folders.) All you need to do is create one or more folders at some convenient location and designate them in Distiller as watched folders. Distiller will automatically create In and Out subfolders within each folder you designate. If you want, you can attach a specific set of Distiller job options for each different watched folder. Then to use the watched folder, you just print your document to a PostScript file within the In subdirectory. Assuming that Distiller is running, it will periodically check each watched folder's In subdirectory and distill any PS file it finds, putting the PDF in the coresponding Out subdirectory. You can generte a bunch of PS files and then launch Distiller to do all the conversions in a batch, or you can leave Distiller running in the background to do the conversions as each book is printed to PS. Easy peasy. -Fred Ridder >From: "Ed Lightle" >To: >Subject: Auto-Generation of PDF's >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:57:32 -0500 > >I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from >FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. I also use >WebWorks 9.2 to create Microsoft HTML Help. > > > >I can't find anything current on WebWorks AutoMap. Is this product >discontinued? > > > >Also, should I just try to learn how to distill to "watched folders" >using Acrobat? If so, where do I go to learn how? > > > >Thanks, > >Ed Lightle > >Sr. Technical Writer > >Command Alkon Inc. > >elightle at commandalkon.com > >___ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspx=T001MSN25A07001
Auto-Generation of PDF's
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:57:32 -0500, "Ed Lightle" wrote: >I am looking for a tool for automating the creation of PDF's from >FrameMaker 7.0 books. I work in Unstructured FrameMaker. You can do that using Mif2Go's runfm utility, which is free. Download the demo version of Mif2Go from: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm and install it; runfm uses the plugin part, the DLLs which go into frame\fminit\plugins, but not the conversion DLLs. The runfm documentation is in the User's Guide, Chapter 32. In addition to PDFs, you can use it to automate print jobs, and, of course, Mif2Go conversions. Note that runfm is free and legal to use even if you never buy the licensed version of Mif2Go. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/
